EUPHRAT & TIGRIS

EXCERPTS FROM THE SPRING 1998 GA REPORT

FROM “K-BAN’S KORNER”:

EUPHRAT & TIGRIS (Hans im Gluck; about $50)

Reiner Knizia has been one of Germany’s most prolific game designers for the past decade…Euphrat & Tigris… is a radical departure … E&T is a 90 to 120 “gamers game” of developing balanced civilizations. It is a tile laying game (for three to four players) with different colored tiles representing settlements, temples, farming/agriculture and markets…

A player’s turn consists of taking any two actions from among the four choices: 1) Position a leader, 2) Place a civilization tile and receive a Victory Point (VP), 3) Place a catastrophe tile, 4) Swap up to six tiles. A player may choose two different actions or perform the same action twice. As with most Knizia games, you’d like to do just a bit more, creating strategic tension in the choice process…

Since only one leader of a given color can peacefully co-exist in each kingdom, a conflict occurs when a second leader of the same color is added or when kingdoms merge….The winner is the player with the greatest number of VPs in his WEAKEST sphere of influence… E&T is relatively easy to teach by example but difficult to learn from scratch…The game does flow nicely once all the concepts have been fully absorbed…Highly recommended. ——– Steve Kurzban

Spring 1998 GA Report Articles

EXCERPTS FROM THE SPRING 1998 GA REPORT FROM "K-BAN'S KORNER": EUPHRAT & TIGRIS (Hans im Gluck; about $50) Reiner Knizia has been one of Germany's most prolific game designers for the past decade...Euphrat & Tigris... is a radical departure ... E&T is a 90 to 120 "gamers game" of developing balanced civilizations. It is a tile laying game (for three to four players) with different ...Read More

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